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Flip the system and make the classwork homework and the homework classwork. Instead of a lecturer being the 5000th person trying to teach the subject with a varying degrees of preparedness, you just get the single best and most enthusiastic lecture of all time, everytime, as a video. Then in class teachers, TAs, and students can have normal humans conversations with each other to work through problems and peer intera…
> they only look like a bubble because we’ve learned to treat education as a market-driven commodity rather than a social good how can you not treat it as a market-driven commodity when a 4 year college degree can cost $120K ?
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Again, a massive generalization that you quite frankly don't have a bit of data to support.
I'm a college student. I make my claims based on experience. Do you disagree with my claim? It may be a generalization, but by no means an overgeneralization.
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I've seen very, very few people able to learn calculus outside of a school system. Most will just go to elaborate lengths to avoid using calculus and justify why they don't need to learn it.
Fair enough. What examples did you have in mind of people trying to avoid the use of calculus (where it would be the best solution)?
Many people at MIT drop out to start companies or work at startups. I don't know how common this is at other schools, but at MIT, "so-and-so dropped out to work full-time at his startup" is not an unusual thing to hear. It seems to me that students value their degrees less than society does.
Flip the system and make the classwork homework and the homework classwork. Instead of a lecturer being the 5000th person trying to teach the subject with a varying degrees of preparedness, you just get the single best and most enthusiastic lecture of all time, everytime, as a video. Then in class teachers, TAs, and students can have normal humans conversations with each other to work through problems and peer intera…
It's called the Khan Academy.
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I've seen very, very few people able to learn calculus outside of a school system. Most will just go to elaborate lengths to avoid using calculus and justify why they don't need to learn it.
Fair enough. What examples did you have in mind of people trying to avoid the use of calculus (where it would be the best solution)?
It's a shame, because understanding differentiation and integration has had a tremendous impact on the way I think. It literally was a gamechanger for me, and it's worth it even though I only use it in thought exercises now.
What is it about this subject that encourages such hyperbole and overgeneralization? For what it's worth, I looked it up (thanks linkedin) and the author of this piece spent four years at some place called Linfield College in McMinville, Oregon, getting a BA in History, Philosophy, French and German. It's possible that her personal experiences may not generalize.
Steve Jobs never graduated college. I would still take his opinion on education. This is an argument that can be logically debated without having to go to credentials.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. -- Leonardo da Vinci